This pain burns a hole in my chest.

It’s not visible or touchable but everyone seems to poke at it.

Trying to make it worse despite the soothing promises they whisper.

I reach out to everyone that seems to surround me but no one knows what I need or even want.

Do I even know what I want?

What could the people around me give that I can’t find on my own?

Alone there is no burning pain, no doubts or suffering.

With them there is nothing but pain and loneliness, false smiles and desperation of trying to fit in.

So why does everyone keep trying to fill their lives with this “friendship” or this “romance”?

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I think I felt it once…a long time ago, gentle smiles and real laughter echoing in my memories.

Does the magic of it all fade as you grow older?

Responsibilities and obligations rule our lives as we grow older.

Trying to please the people around us, becoming parrots and repeating what is “cool” and ignoring our own desires.

Money is all everyone wants.

Having everything but the one thing that matters most and when you realize that you want it most…it disappears.

It’s true that we grow wiser as our years pass us by but what is the cost of this wisdom?

Watching the younger generations’ make the same mistakes that we had made but unable to make them see until it’s too late for them.

Love songs sung with a broken heart or the hopes of forever.

Truthfully though, when you think of it… Nothing lasts forever.

Something is lost to gain something new.

Losing a friendship to gain a lover’s touch.

Hot burning passion melts the cold icy loneliness.

Star-lit night skies fade to blue morning skies as the sun burns the mists of darkness away.

Every day is just a new beginning.